A Poet

Category: Film

However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn't screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in this raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe's idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.

Winner of awards at the Cannes, Melbourne, Munich, San Sebastian, India, Lima and El Gouna Film Festivals[The] moral of this story is the one that Oscar learns: To be an artist isn’t about living the life of an artist, or saying things that sound like the things an artist might say. It means sitting down, as boring as it can be, and actually making the art. Alissa Wilkinson/NY Times

Ultimately, A Poet is a universal treatise on the world of arts and letters, in that it’s about the contradictions inherent in creativity in general in any corner of the world—the economic strife that runs parallel to artistic achievements. Namrata Joshi/New Indian Express

That you’re never entirely sure if Oscar is going to be the adult or the child in any given scene creates a wonderfully funny tension. It’s one of the best performances of this past year and if Rios never acted again, it’d be a one-off for the ages... Robert Abele/ Los Angeles Times

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123 min

Spanish with English subtitles

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Proceeds to the Good Shepherd

The Ancaster Film Fest presents an opportunity for Ancaster and Hamilton area residents to see exceptional international award winning films, not normally available in mainstream cineplexes and cinemas, and also provides independent distributors with an opportunity to expand the theatrical run of such films.

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